Mojo Monday 392

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  I hope your week is going well!  I had some stamping time in my craft room yesterday and decided to play with the Mojo Monday sketch, one I haven’t done for a while!

I am still making thank you cards, and still trying to use up some of my DSP stash!  This combo is a wee bit busy but I loved the color combination in the Flowerpot and Flashback DSPs:

I stamped some florals from Flower Shop in Real Red and Crushed Curry and mounted them on a Very Vanilla circle, added some twine, banners and a little “thanks” from the photopolymer set Another Thank You:

This will be going out in the mail today!

Cassidy learned how to make cracker pizzas in school, so she taught me how to make them:  a couple crackers, a little sauce, a wee bit of mozzarella and 20 seconds in the microwave:

Yum!  Now they’re Grampy’s new favorite snack too!

Enjoy your day!

Easy Peasy CTS117 and CYCI64

Happy Tuesday, everyone!  Phew, what a weekend!  Easter, lunch with family and friends, the Ringling Brothers circus…plus my computer decided to eat all my work-related files as well as crash my Picasa photo database.  Sigh…technology!  Blessedly, I was able to restore them all, but I was sweating it for a while!

Cassidy put herself down for a nap yesterday (she’s got some sniffles) so I was able to STAMP!  Woohoo!  Just a real simple card for my friend whose birthday is coming up; I used the color challenge from Can You Case It:

and my sweet friend Lesley’s sketch at CAS(E) This Sketch:

I must admit, this is not the most glamorous card I’ve ever made, but it needed to be quick and easy, and this little cupcake from Sweet Stuff fit the bill perfectly!  I stamped it in Stazon on DSP in the challenge colors, stamped it again on my white panel, cut out the cupcake papers, adhered them, added glitter, sequins and a sentiment, and it was DONE!

Don’t they look good enough to eat?  Yummy!

So here are a few pix from the circus; my small camera just doesn’t do well (or maybe it’s the user, not sure) in low light, so I don’t have too many.  But we really had fun; I think John had the most fun of all!

Enjoy your day!

Paper Players 239

Happy Easter, everyone!  I hope you will all have a blessed day with your family and friends!  Praise the Lord for the gift He has given us!

Our Paper Players hostess today is Jaydee, and she has a die-cut theme for us!  Not difficult at all!  No one was more thrilled than I was, once I discovered that I could cut CIRCLES without a big fuss—woohoo!

So it was very appropriate that I used SU’s Circle Framelits for my masculine card today:

So much going on here; where do I begin?  First, the sketch is from Jen Timko at Freshly Made Sketches:

That started me on my way!  I had seen a long time ago a post from Amy O’Neill where she used craft paint on Typeset DSP, so in the middle of  an insomnia-filled evening, I got up and tried it….cool technique!  I heat-embossed the big sentiment from Adventure Awaits in black embossing powder….another cool technique, and while I had the powder out, heat-embossed the vintage car image from Guy Greetings.  The embossing made it very easy to color it in with Cajun Craze ink:

Maybe I should have colored in some of the other areas; hmmm, I’ll work on that!  The rest of the card features a zig-zag diecut of Cajun Craze cardstock; a half-circle of Flashback and mat of Very Vanilla, and although it’s tough to see, the bottom portion is embossed with the Alphabet Press EF.  Candy dots added a little extra pizzazz! 

Hope you’ll find some time to play with the Players this week and show us your best diecuts!  Meanwhile, check out the design team’s creations:

• Ann
• Anne Marie
• Claire
• Debbie
• Jaydee
• Joanne
• Karren
• Laurie
• Nance
• Sandy
• Shannon

We had an Easter Egg hunt last week; if was SO cold and windy, this is how the men participated:

But Cassidy had fun!

 

Enjoy your day!

Happy Resurrection Day!

Happy Easter – or as one of my pastors always liked to call it – Resurrection Day -  to all my Christian friends! 

Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”  Praise the Lord for His wonderful gift to us!

AYSI81 and FF 61 for Easter

Happy Saturday, everyone!  We have a busy day—we are headed to the circus in Baltimore!  So I made a few last-minute Easter cards yesterday for my small group members using the As You See It sketch for this week:

as well as the colors from the Fab Friday challenge:

I recently found a lovely blog called The Paper Caper, and Jess had a tutorial for making a little diecut cross using the Little Letters dies.  You can see it here.  I used her idea, but I used the smaller Chalk Talk die and backed the cross with SU’s Gold Foil:

I made five of these, using pastel shades for the die and flowers; I used images from Kinda Eclectic, Summer Silhouettes, Bordering Blooms and some of them had Gorgeous Grunge as well.

I did some heat embossing in gold, using the Easter sentiment from the retired set, Delightful Dozen:

I used the sunburst from Kinda Eclectic on the inside as well, along with a sentiment from God Bless II:

We did some egg-dying on Thursday, but first she had to peel one of the cracked ones:

and of course, she had to try to dye her peeled egg as well, LOL!

Be sure to come back tomorrow for our next Paper Players challenge!

CAS Easter, Vintage Style

Happy Good Friday, peeps!  I have been neglectful of my blog this week, just too many activities going on, but soon I’ll be back in the swing of things!  I made a very quick little Easter card using a vintage postcard image from Old Design Shop; here you go:

Aren’t these chicks cute?  In today’s age of tweets and cellphones, I thought this was a fun image!  I mounted the postcard on a piece of Baja Breeze cardstock that I stamped with a backgrounder from Cornish Heritage Farms; I just love that soft look!  I added a little lace and a big  Rose Red seam binding bow, and it was done!

I plan to spend the rest of my day in my craft room, yippee!  Hope you get in some creative time today too!

More playdoh fun (sorry, she is really into playdoh these days!):

Enjoy your day!

CMCC65 and CASology 140

Happy Thursday, peeps!  Just a quick clean and simple card for the Colour Me…! color challenge this week:

and the CASology cue for this week is “spring”:

So, I combined a current set, Adventure Awaits, with an older set, Bootiful Occasions for a tongue-in-cheek card:

I used the Cloudy Day embossing folder; colored the boots with reinkers and my aquapainter; and popped them up….and it was fun and done!

Enjoy your day!

Linin’ up the wee ones!